About Me

By training, I'm an attorney with an interest in constitutional law, immigration law and international law. My hobbies include sewing (I'm a seamstress and can usually be found sewing costumes for myself or my friends.), genealogy research (I love researching my family and can do it for hours online.), reading (usually trash but recently some non fiction legal books). And I'm a Christian, well my own version of one.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Updated DragonCon To Do List

First of all, I'm feeling very overwhelmed at the moment. I have a feeling that everything is NOT going to get done for Dragon*Con, which is a mere 71 days away. So its time to prioritize.

Things that NEED to get done, in the order I plan to work on them:

Our Confederate vivandiere uniforms. Mine is to the point of trying it on with my skirt, but Miss Von Stoup's is not. I need to add the collar and facings, topstitch and set in the sleeves. Then will come a fitting to determine jacket length and what to do with the sleeves. Next will be finishing the jackets and then of course adding the trim and buttons. I'm hoping to have her jacket to fitting stage by the end of next week.

Then the next project I'll be tackling is Prof. Watt's Scarlet Spider. I'm hoping to get the fabric in the next couple weeks so we can start on this after the Confederate uniforms are to the hand sewing stage.

Fixing my beau's kilt so it has pockets and or a pouch.

Post apocalyptic costume for Miss Von Stoup

Sewing that will be interspersed between projects:

Embroidering my Ottoman vest and fixing the bustle.

The Confederate uniforms once they're to the hand sewing point.

Beau's quilt

I started a pink silk corset for myself. I'm hoping to make a costume to go with it in between working on other projects. I'm still rolling ideas around in my head so I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with it. Current corset status - lining has been sewn together, fitted and taken in; silk has been cut out; in the process of cutting out the denim interlining and basting it to the silk. I'm going to sew it with black thread and bind it with black bias tape. The eyelets will be silver and the lacing will likely be black since I can easily purchase black boot laces.

And a couple more costumes for Miss Von Stoup -- a polanaise out of a black and silver damask print and maybe something more out of the blue Chinese print we used for her Asian inspired jacket.

Things that probably won't get finished:

The Joker costume.

The playsuit combo is a bust I think. Unfortunately.

Simi and Star Trek

I also have a new cosplay that I'm putting together that I'm excited about - Cover Girl from GI Joe to go with my beau's Shipwreck costume. Thankfully, I should be able to buy most if not all of what I need, and hopefully it'll be fairly inexpensive.

I'm going home this weekend, but probably won't have much time to sew. I'll probably only take my embroidery to work on. And maybe the Ottoman bustle.